Dictablanda : politics, work, and culture in Mexico, 1938-1968 / Paul Gillingham and Benjamin T. Smith, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gillingham, Paul, 1973-

Smith, Benjamin T.

Series:

American encounters/global interactions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexico--Politics and government--1946-1970.

Mexico.

Politics and government.

Mexico--History--1910-1946.

History.

Mexico--History--1946-1970.

Physical Description:

xviii, 444 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Summary:

In 1910 Mexicans rebelled against an imperfect dictatorship; after 1940 they ended up with what some called the perfect dictatorship. A single party ruled Mexico for over seventy years, holding elections and talking about revolution while overseeing one of the world's most inequitable economies. The contributors to this groundbreaking collection revise earlier interpretations, arguing that state power was not based exclusively on hegemony, corporatism, or violence. Force was real, but it was also exercised by the ruled. It went hand-in-hand with consent, produced by resource regulation, political pragmatism, local autonomies and a popular veto. The result was a dictablanda: a soft authoritarian regime. This deliberately heterodox volume brings together social historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists to offer a radical new understanding of the emergence and persistence of the modern Mexican state. It also proposes bold, multidisciplinary approaches to critical problems in contemporary politics. With its blend of contested elections, authoritarianism, and resistance, Mexico foreshadowed the hybrid regimes that have spread across much of the globe. Dictablanda suggests how they may endure. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: the paradoxes of revolution / by Paul Gillingham and Benjamin T. Smith

The end of the Mexican Revolution? From Cárdenas to Avila Camacho, 1937-1941 / by Alan Knight

Intransigence, anticommunism, and reconciliation : church/state relations in transition / by Roberto Blancarte

Camouflaging the state : the army and the limits of hegemony in PRIísta Mexico, 1940-1960 / by Thomas Rath

Strongmen and state weakness / by Rogelio Hernández Rodríguez

Tropical passion in the desert : Gonzalo N. Santos and local elections in Northern San Luis Potosí, 1943-1958 / by Wil G. Pansters

"We don't have arms, but we do have balls" : fraud, violence, and popular agency in elections / by Paul Gillingham

The Golden Age of charrismo : workers, braceros, and the political machinery of postrevolutionary Mexico / by Michael Snodgrass

The forgotten Jaramillo : building a social base of support for authoritarianism in rural Mexico / by Gladys McCormick

Community, crony capitalism, and fortress conservation in Mexican forests / by Christopher R. Boyer

Advocate or cacica? Guadalupe Urzúa Flores : modernizer and peasant political leader in Jalisco / by María Teresa Fernández Aceves

Building a state on the cheap : taxation, social movements, and politics / by Benjamin T. Smith

The end of revolutionary anthropology? : notes on indigenismo / by Guillermo de la Peña

Cooling to cinema and warming to television : state mass media policy, 1940-1964 / by Andrew Paxman

Pistoleros, Ley Fuga, and uncertainty in public debates about murder in twentieth-century Mexico / by Pablo Piccato

Rural education, political radicalism, and normalista identity in Mexico after 1940 / by Tanalís Padilla

The rise of a "national student problem" in 1956 / by Jaime Pensado

Final comments: Contextualizing the regime? ": what 1938-1968 tells us about Mexico, power, and Latin America's twentieth century / by Jeffrey W. Rubin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-425) and index.

ISBN:

9780822356318

0822356317

9780822356370

0822356376

OCLC:

854848186